Re: [Emc-users] crazy experiment

2018-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 November 2018 19:03:08 Mark Wendt wrote: > Huh. I've yet to have issues with Firefox on either Wheezy or Ubuntu > 16.04 LTS. Perhaps one or more of your plugins have gang aft agly. Or > perhaps one of your config changes is causing issues > Try turning off all your plugins and

Re: [Emc-users] Surface grinder vertical axis servo motor and controller recommendation

2018-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 00:06, wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. I don’t think he is married to servos, it is > just that the system he has has an old stepper and it has never worked well, That's older steppers for you, though, I suspect. Maybe one of the closed-loop steppers from

Re: [Emc-users] Surface grinder vertical axis servo motor and controller recommendation

2018-11-20 Thread tom-emc
Thanks to all who responded. I don’t think he is married to servos, it is just that the system he has has an old stepper and it has never worked well, most industrial machines he has in his shop have servos so he thought that would be more reliable. > On Nov 20, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Gene

Re: [Emc-users] crazy experiment

2018-11-20 Thread Mark Wendt
Huh. I've yet to have issues with Firefox on either Wheezy or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Perhaps one or more of your plugins have gang aft agly. Or perhaps one of your config changes is causing issues Try turning off all your plugins and trying again. If it works then bring up your plugins one at a time

[Emc-users] crazy experiment

2018-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Its a known fact that the default FF in an uptodate wheezy install is badly bent, it not completely broken, or its javascript is. So heres a chuckle for folks that like to do stuff the hard way: Needing to buy the 7i76D and a high speed 1284 cable to interconnect it to a 5i25

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 November 2018 14:29:53 Chris Albertson wrote: > I think the only reason to have a UPS on a machine is if you actually > wanted to run the machine after losing AC power. that case the UPS > would be sized to power the entire machine, motors and all. > Exactly. And in my case it

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Chris Albertson
I think the only reason to have a UPS on a machine is if you actually wanted to run the machine after losing AC power. that case the UPS would be sized to power the entire machine, motors and all. If you are concerned about file system corruption on power failure, two things can help (1) use a

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/20/2018 09:06 AM, Thaddeus Waldner wrote: I’m in the process of converting a small medium-duty table router to work with a LinuxCNC controller. I am duly impressed that such a wealth of technical information and such a powerful and robust industrial automation tool should be available

[Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Roland Jollivet
I once worked on an old Sodick wire eroder. It had a large 12V battery built in. But I can't remember to what extent the battery kept circuitry alive in the event of a power fail. On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 19:57, Les Newell wrote: > I have done quite a lot of maintenance work on various

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Les Newell
I have done quite a lot of maintenance work on various industrial machines. I can't think of even one machine I have worked on that had a UPS fitted. I have seen a few with line conditioning circuitry where they have particularly noisy supply. If power cuts are a regular occurrence I suppose a

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 16:54, Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > I’m intrigued by the “record the line number and then shut down” part. Is > this something that the user would do manually after noticing that the power > was cut or is this somehow automated? A userspace HAL component could record

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
The machine stops when the emergency button is pushed. The power to the motors are cut and the programs stops at a line. The operator records that line (or at least I do ) and then the job can be run from there or the closest line that is not in a canned cycle or and incremental command.

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Thaddeus Waldner
I’m intrigued by the “record the line number and then shut down” part. Is this something that the user would do manually after noticing that the power was cut or is this somehow automated? > On Nov 20, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Marius Liebenberg > wrote: > > I agree with Andy. I put my controllers

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I agree with Andy. I put my controllers on a UPS and then have a signal that is wired through a drop-out relay that is also connected to the emergency stop switch. So when the power fails the machine is stopped and you can record line numbers at least and then shut down. -- Original

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 November 2018 10:06:20 Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > I’m in the process of converting a small medium-duty table router to > work with a LinuxCNC controller. I am duly impressed that such a > wealth of technical information and such a powerful and robust > industrial automation tool

Re: [Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 15:10, Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > My question is, *should* a controller such as this have an uninterruptible > power supply? If so, what parts of the machine are normally served by a UPS? I doubt that it is common to attempt to machine on standby power, but I can see

[Emc-users] UPS on controller

2018-11-20 Thread Thaddeus Waldner
I’m in the process of converting a small medium-duty table router to work with a LinuxCNC controller. I am duly impressed that such a wealth of technical information and such a powerful and robust industrial automation tool should be available to the public, free of charge. Many thanks to all

Re: [Emc-users] question on progress of addf survey tool.

2018-11-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 19.11.18 19:41, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 November 2018 14:28:14 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > > We need a utility that detects out of order addf's, each of which > > > then causes a one thread execution delay in the data traveling that > > > path. Data from a limit/home switch to use a